Super-Crafty Halloween Costume Contest III entries are here!

Exciting news! While the Bay Bridge closure, connectivity issues on my home computer, deadlines in my real job and a sick kid conspired to rob the world of the latest round of Super-Crafty Halloween Costume Contest entries, the first round is below …

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This Autobot has an exceptionally crafty parent …

I’m excited about the entries we’ve received this year — especially the variety. We have several parents who are extremely good with foam and hot glue (see the awesomeness to the right of this page), but also a large amount of entries who did a lot with limited resources and plenty of imagination. A special thanks for including all the great explanations in your e-mails. The stories are my favorite part of this contest.

I’ll be adding new ones during my spare time today, so check back frequently. My apologies if your costume isn’t included. I’ve had trouble with some of the downloads, others didn’t meet the criteria and we may have to leave a few out because of the volume of entries.

Designed and sewed by Bridget Keith, age 12. Dress is from the Goodwill, cats are from her stuffed animal collection. Idea all her own.

Jennifer Keith

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Courtesy Janet Jaramillo

Hi Peter,

I have to admit I am a lurker. I love the posts and the community you have created. The attached picture is of my almost 5-year-old daughter, Cece, in an absolutely amazing costume made with so much love by her Grammy and Auntie Sue.

Cece chose to be a flapper based on the shoes alone, she is a 4-year-old Ilemda Marcos. She HAD to have black strappy high heels — yes I know I am in for a very interesting experience during her teenage years! In the background is her baby sister who is in a store bought Strawberry costume even thought she looks like a tomato from behind!

Anyway thanks for considering us!

Janet Jaramillo

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Courtesy Lisa Harris

My son is a huge fan of the movie ‘Cars’, which I suppose is obvious. The costume is mostly huggies diaper boxes and wire, with a flashlight mounted inside for Mater’s one working headlight.

Thanks for running this fun contest!

Lisa Harris

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Courtesy Jane Nylund

I guess every parent dreams of glory for their child, and after reading your blog, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to showcase my son’s costume, along with the bragging rights that goes with it. My son is now ten, so he probably won’t get points for cuteness, but I think he should score big with the cleverness factor.

Last year, he wanted to be a burglar; we live in Oakland, so gee, wonder where he got that idea, go figure. Anyway, this year, he said he wanted to be a cat burglar. Thinking that perhaps we could expand upon the idea of what it literally means to be a cat burglar, we hit the Goodwill store and procured all sorts of toy stuffed cats, along one large black trench coat, and here he now stands in full cat burglar regalia. Happy Halloween!

Jane Nylund

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Courtesy Wil Wong

Courtesy Wil Wong

Hi,

These aren’t the greatest pics, but i wanted to share my kids’ halloween constume pics. We just finished the costumes last weekend. My son is going as an iPod touch and my daughter is going as a ball of yarn. I also included a pic of them with today’s edition of “The Poop.”

Happy Halloween!

Wil

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Anonymous

Hello,

Here is my son 6-year-old Ayden being Bumblebee from “The Transformers.” Made of foam, tons of hot glue and spray paint.

Thanks

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Courtesy Hilary Hehman

Linus Van Pelt, one year later …

Oliver used to be content to sit quietly on the couch and wait for the Great Pumpkin, but not anymore. Now he likes to hurl himself off of anything higher than one foot off the ground with no regard for his own personal safety, so Evel Knievel seemed like an appropriate costume this year. It only took 3 yards of red, white, and blue fabric and 2 rolls of iron-on fusing. That fusing stuff is amazing.

I can’t wait to see the rest of the costumes! Thanks again for the contest. It’s always a blast.

Hilary

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Courtesy Christy D.

Hi Peter!

So excited to finally be able to participate! Our twins are 9 months old, and are costumed as Happy and Dopey. The shirts, hats, pants and slippers are all store-bought, the belt and buckle cut out from felt. I sent an additional picture with mommy as Snow White for context, since my costume was bought at Disneyland (although it was on loan from my sister!) and not eligible.

We are looking forward to participating the next few years — Viva La Poop!

Cheers!

Christy D.

Xavier and Liam, 9 months

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Courtesy Zylna

Jaiden as “Bride/Groom” & Zack as “Frankie” (in 2009)

Thank you,

Zylna

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Courtesy Shannon Sierra

Hi Peter,

Here is my entry for the Halloween contest, Marco age 3 and Esteban age 5. (Shakira is in the back).

Thanks,

Shannon Sierra

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Courtesy Llela

Courtesy Llela

Hi,

Here is our entry! I unfortunately did not get a chance to get the newspaper for today nor turn on my computer and load the Poop page to get my son to pose and mark this day. By the time we got home, he was pooped out from the big Halloween party we just came from.

My son’s name is Blaise, he is turning 2 on Thanksgiving day. This is my first year to make his costume — cape with flames, pants with flames, long sleeve shirt with flames and matching shoes with flames. Therefore, he is known as the Blaise-Man! (Though our neighbor thought he was a little devil.) I was able to obtain a fabric from the store that had flame prints on it. I cut out the flame fabric to flame shapes to give it additional oomph. I initially used the sewing machine for the cape, but with the rest, I had to do it by hand as the t-shirt and pants did not have a big enough opening for the sewing machine. I also made an emblem for his chest … a flaming B … but not sure if people can even notice it. My son enjoyed his costume and I had my fair share of fun! Until next halloween!!

I am sending two pics because it was hard to take a good pic covering all the “flames”

-Llela

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Courtesy Vanessa Gianno

Peter,

Here is a picture of my son and my daughter. I had wanted to do a Where the Wild Things Are costume for some time but I knew I had to do it this year when the movie came out. I am super not crafty so I turned to my really crafty aunt to help me out — not only is she a perfectionist but she was also a school teacher so the idea of doing the classic book made her really happy. My son Johnny is Max and my daughter Maria Lucia is Carol, one of the Wild Things. The best part was it actually taught me a lot about making costumes and sewing and surprisingly enough my son is totally into wearing it too; we took him to the Sendak exhibit to get him into the costume and he kept roaring his terrible roar the whole time. We also made everything detachable so they costumes can convert to pjs after halloween.

Hope you like it!

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Courtesy Victoria Magbilang

Courtesy Victoria Magbilang

Hi!

When my five-year-old daughter told me that she wanted to be a seahorse this year, I thought “Good idea!” That is, until I Googled it and found out that seahorse is not a readily available costume!

Inspired by my success last year at making my other daughter a black cat hat to wear for Halloween, I went to the craft store, where I almost had a panic attack at the idea that my mental picture might be harder to pull off than anticipated. Although quite crafty in general, I don’t have much experience with sewing, and don’t own a sewing machine.

Sensing my distress, my ever-positive girl told me, “Don’t worry. If the seahorse costume you make doesn’t work out, I’ll just wear my Little Mermaid costume and the pony head we already have.” Get it … sea horse?

However, I must say that I’m very proud of my creation. And weeks before Halloween! (Pats self on back with gusto). I’ve also attached a photo of her wearing it in front of the latest edition of The Poop to prove that it’s from this year.

Thanks!

Victoria Magbilang

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Courtesy Zenta

Hello,

My friend told me about your crafty Halloween contest so I thought I’d give it a try! My baby was delivered this year so I thought this costume suited him well :). I had a lot of fun making this ‘Poop crafty’ halloween costume out of the diaper boxes laying around the house.

Enjoy.

Sincerely, Zenta

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Courtesy Lacey Sarafin

Hello Kitty in 3-point stance

Here you go! I actually just finished this thing the other day so I

wouldn’t have to worry about it any more for the rest of the month.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart on Halloween.

-Lacey Sarafin

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Courtesy Irene Chu

Courtesy Irene Chu

Hi Peter,

Here is my 4-year-old modeling our two entries, Fillmore and Red, from the Disney Pixar movie “Cars”. I wanted to make costumes they loved from stuff I had around the house so I used diaper boxes, construction paper (leftover from my failed attempt at scrapbook-making), and double-sided tape that I haven’t used for those babyproofing edge guards. I did have to buy a roll of green wrapping paper (who really has Fillmore green lying around?) and some red posterboard.

I’ve been so focused on form that I’m having trouble with the function at the eleventh hour. (Connect me with Lisa Harris for help, please!) Not sure if our 19-month-old can cart one of these babies around. Thankfully, we have extra clothes for a little hippie or firefighter!

Irene

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Courtesy Lauren Kitchen

Hi Peter,

Here are my two kiddos. I took these pictures today at my daughter’s

preschool parade. I am especially proud of the spider costume. I made

the backpack out of a floral foam wreath covered by felt and stuffed

with some batting. The spider legs are made from floral wire with a

fuzzy boa glued on with elmer’s glue. The hat was purchased but I glued

the eyes on. All of the supplies only cost me $20 at Michael’s.

The wings on my daughter’s costume are purchased but I made the tutu and

hair bows. We were lucky enough that she already had the orange and pink

shirt to go with the costume. Piece of cake!

Lauren

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Courtesy Vicky Xiong

Hi Peter,

We figured this is the last year we can make our daughter dress up as

whatever we want before she demands to be a princess next year.

The hardest part was the Spock haircut, followed by teaching her to do